Summary
Wesley Michael is an accomplished architect and software engineer with 12+ years in senior roles and a 30+ year engineering career spanning telecom, finance, and consumer goods. He specializes in cloud and infrastructure architecture, automation (Ansible, Jenkins), DevOps integrations, and privileged access/secret management, leading cloud foundation to Cloud Center of Excellence transitions at The J.M. Smucker Co. Known for translating business requirements into secure, auditable infrastructure deliverables, he has hands-on experience across Linux/HPUX, ServiceNow, HashiCorp Vault/Delinea, PagerDuty, GitLab and orchestration tooling. Wesley combines deep systems programming roots (C/C++, Solaris, Oracle, J2EE) from his Ericsson days with modern infrastructure automation and mentoring, enabling stable large-scale deployments and 24/7 operational support. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Penn State and a magna cum laude B.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and is noted by colleagues for a pragmatic “get it right” customer-focus that bridges ops and development. An often overlooked strength: he pairs legacy systems expertise with current cloud practices, making him adept at modernizing long-lived enterprise platforms.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.72/4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.72/4.0 at Penn State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.66/4.00; Graduated magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.66/4.00; Graduated magna cum laude at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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